Now that we're using LLVM 2.5, we can stop always running the CFGSimplification pass. The pass was originally added as a workaround for a LLVM 2.4 bug where debug info would reference labels that have been optimized away.

module globals1;
extern(C) int printf(char*, ...);

char[] gstr = "hello world";

void main()
{
    printf("%.*s\n", gstr.length, gstr.ptr);
    char[] str = gstr;
    printf("%.*s\n", str.length, str.ptr);
}